Linux-Hardware Digest #8, Volume #13 Thu, 8 Jun 00 19:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Red Hat 6.2, Highpoint HPT366: installs fine, won't boot stopping at (Richard
Taylor)
GDT6518RS under RedHat 6.2
Problem with ISDN card... ("Arne Gjetanger")
*** $300USD Contract: Linux "CHVT" Modification *** (Prarit Bhargava)
Re: Athlon recomendations (purple dreams)
SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1 module) (yet another sound card problem) (Ethan Alpert)
Re: Celeron or PIII? ("John Smith")
Global Village ISA model ("John Smith")
SB16 -- good old 'dev or resource busy'... (Jared M Minch)
Re: Global Village ISA model ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Mandrake SCSI Problems, Install (M. Bruce McFarland, Absolute systems)
Re: Ethernet and sound broken since Athlon upgrade. (Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=F6hme?=)
Re: SB16 -- good old 'dev or resource busy'... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Mandrake SCSI Problems, Install ("Sean Kennedy")
Re: Strange IDE Results ("Mike")
Re: Strange IDE Results ("Mike")
Re: Can't receive packets (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Turning on joystick port (bernie)
Re: Linux now supports ATA/100... and versus Ultra-160 SCSI ("Xk")
Re: HELP: SIMPLE IRQ Routine Crashes (Andrey Vlasov)
Creative Esonics sound card & RH 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems (Tellplace)
linksys 10/100 56k pcmcia card probs ("sft")
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:29:07 +0100
From: Richard Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2, Highpoint HPT366: installs fine, won't boot stopping at
_ wrote:
>
> Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind too. Linear,
> non-linear, setting the CHS values manually... same
> result... 'LI'!
>
> It's as if LILO can't see the highpoint drives at all.
>
> Thanks..!
>
<snip>
Don't know if you've tried this, but it helped me.
I'm using an HPT366 on a BP6 using Suse 6.4. I had this problem
installing LILO on a drive on this controller. It turned out
the geometry was changing when booted up. I downloaded the latest
version of LILO and read the README.2nd which was very interesting.
Basically, booted into a clean DOS, ran the 'disk.com' program
provided with LILO and noted the numbers given back and put them
into my 'lilo.conf', so in my case:
<lilo.conf>
disk = /dev/hde
bios = 0x80
sectors = 63
heads = 16
cylinders = 16383
</lilo.conf>
Putting in the CHS values found when the machine was booted in Linux
didn't work. This works a treat and I can boot directly from this
drive and get UDMA66 support.
HTH, rich.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GDT6518RS under RedHat 6.2
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:30:09 GMT
I know that the GDT6518RD is supported under RedHat 6.2, has anyone had
any experience w/the RS's? I think the only difference is the clock speed
(66Mhz as opposed to 100Mhz in the newer RS's). Do you think the drivers
for the RD's will work with the newer cards?
http://www.icp-vortex.com/prod/pci/6518rs/6518rs_e.html
Dan
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From: "Arne Gjetanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with ISDN card...
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:36:52 +0200
I have a ISDN card I try to get up in Linux. The problem is that when I try
to use the card, I get an error that it can't find the IRQ for the card. the
comman lspci -vv give the following output:
00:09.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International: Unknown device
2014 (rev 01)
Subsystem: E-Tech Inc: Unknown device 2014
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Region 1: I/O ports at b000
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI+ D1- D2- PME+
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:0d.0 Network controller: Dynalink IS64PH ISDN Adapter
Subsystem: Winbond Electronics Corp: Unknown device 6692
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at e0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Region 1: I/O ports at a800
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP
1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0084
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 8 min, 64 set, cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Region 1: I/O ports at d800
Region 2: Memory at e1800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Expansion ROM at e3fe0000 [disabled]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
Status: RQ=255 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
The seccond entry is my ISDN card, and it says here that the interrupt pin
is connected to IRQ 0 (This means that linux could not find a suitable IRQ
for the card, Right???). I've tried with various settings in my BIOS (by
setting the IRQ in the different PCI slots to different values) without much
luck. And it allways work in Window$, so I think it's a problem with my
linux configuration and not my computer.
I loads the driver for the card with the following command:
modprobe hisax protocoll=2 type=36
And I then get the following error in /var/log/messages
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: HiSax: EU (D133362J) CETECOM ICT Services
GmbH
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: HiSax: Approved with Eicon Technology Diva
2.01 PCI cards
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=hisax (0)
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: HiSax: W6692 driver Rev. 1.1
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: W6692: No IRQ for PCI card found
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: HiSax: Card Winbond 6692 not installed !
Jun 3 10:40:05 localhost kernel: ISDN-subsystem unloaded
Any suggestions are appreciated (I'm pretty tired og booting Windows every
time I want to send an email...)
Morten Gjetanger
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From: Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.x11
Subject: *** $300USD Contract: Linux "CHVT" Modification ***
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:38:59 GMT
Wanted: Person(s) who can modify Linux Kernel such that when CHVTing
or CTRL-ALT-FN# from one Xserver to another Xserver, Xserver screen
remains on the not used screen.
Xservers are started with
startx -- :0 -xf86config XF86Config.1 vt07
startx -- :1 -xf86config XF86Config.2 vt08
Using chvt or CTRL-ALT-# to change between vt07 and vt08 one will
notice that the not-used screen switches from Graphics mode to Text
mode. The object is to modify this code such that this switch does
not occur when switching from one X server to another.
**The modifications must be executable over twin video cards, or
preferably, a single multi-head Matrox video card. The Xserver
being used must be Xfree86 4.0. **
Expected Duration: 1-2 days.
Pay: $300USD (DOE) upon presentation of final modifications (does not
have to be a patch, rpm, etc.)
Contact Information: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or telephone
1-403-202-2179.
--
Prarit Bhargava, M.Sc.
E-complex: http://www.E-complex.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (purple dreams)
Subject: Re: Athlon recomendations
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:50:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gero H. Marten wrote:
>You obviously aren't serving a network, running apache, sendmail, inn,
>junkbuster, bind, samba, etc. simultaneously. Athlons are never used
>as servers, because they are not 100% i386 compatible. Remember, Linux
>was written for the i386 chipset. More questions? Be advised, not to
>by an Athlon if you want to do serious work under Linux. On the other
>hand, if you just want to peep into Linux and otherwise use Windoze,
>be happy.
neither is any pentium processor since the PPro 100% compatible!
the AMD processor is just as compatible as your compiler's optimizations.
if you compile "apache, sendmail, inn,junkbuster, bind, samba, etc" poorly
or incorrectly then of course you will have problems, but if you do it
incorrectly for a P3 you will have problems too.
don't make the mistake that hardware is the only cause of incompatibilities,
or you will be left behind when the itanium gets here (which relies so
heavily on compiler optimizations as to be almost independent of hardware
optimizations!)
i am a big fan of AMD, but I would also agree that the athlon is probably not
the best platform for a hard core server, but because of the motherboards,
not the CPU. the athlon is a much nicer design (IMNSHO) than the CuMine :)
once the AMD 760 (and higher) chipsets get here we will see just wether or
not an athlon can be a contender in the server marketplace....
enjoy :)
--
purple dreams : http://purpledreams.com
I often dream about being carried away by a giant squirrel.
Does that make me a nut?
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From: Ethan Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1 module) (yet another sound card problem)
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:13:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First let me say I've read everything I could possibly find. I've got a
Dell Precision 420 with RH6.2 running an smp enabled 2.2.14 kernel. I'm
trying to get my SoundBlaster Live card to work. The card is identified
correctly by the system, but, I'm getting the infamous "Device or
resource busy" error. Obviously I have an IRQ conflict, the problem is
I can't find out which one nor can I figure out how to fix it. The
emu10k1 module does not accept "irq=..." options in /etc/conf.modules.
Furthermore, the HOWTO says to try booting DOS which is not an option as
this machine was shipped with RH. Also, the documentation on emu10k1
says to shut off PnP in the bios. In my bios screen I don't see such an
option.
Is my only option to recompile the kernel with kernel hacking enabled
and compile the emu10k1 with debugging on? The source code has several
error messages which would be helpful if printed out. As far as I can
tell the emu10k1 module should be able to share interrupts. I'm guessing
that it must be a PCI device causing the problem since the sound modules
are the first loaded in the rc.sysinit startup script. I'm stumped so
any useful information would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
-ethan alpert
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PIII?
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:25:07 -0700
Make up your mind, do you want it for word processing or watching DVD movies
There is a huge difference. If you want to watch DVD's then you need the
PentiumIII
> I am planning to buy a new PC for use under Linux.
>
> Because of low budget I'm interested if it is wise to invest in more MBs
of
> RAM memory (128 instead of 64) and buy Celeron (566MHz) instead of PIII
> (550MHz)?
>
> I use computer primarily for text processing and database applications.
>
> Is it Celeron 566 powerful enough to run DVD movies?
> Sincerely,
> Sasa
>
>
>
>
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Global Village ISA model
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:28:31 -0700
My Glodal Village ISA modem on ttsy2 (com3 in windows) keeps getting a Modem
is busy in kppp
What can I do to make this modem work
I also have a Winmodem on ttsy1 (com2) and a network card
I've tried Corel and SUSE with the same results
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From: Jared M Minch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB16 -- good old 'dev or resource busy'...
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:36:45 -0700
I've been trying to get my sb16 to work, but every time I try to load the
sb module, I get 'init_module: device or resource busy.' (Sometimes,
after it says that, it also says 'sound: device or resource busy --
although i can't seem to figure out in what circumstances it does or does
not happen.)
At first, I figured that it was an IRQ conflict or something, but I've
checked and don't think that's it. I've also noticed that if I don't
specify the port/irq/dma, it spits back out the error that I need to give
those options (in which case, if i'm reading the source correctly, it
simply drops back out and doesn't try to access the sound card, although
i'll admit that i could very well be wrong) and still gives the device or
resource busy message -- which seems odd to me; is that normal?
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be going wrong?
Thanks
Jared Minch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Global Village ISA model
Date: 8 Jun 2000 21:44:06 GMT
John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: My Glodal Village ISA modem on ttsy2 (com3 in windows) keeps getting a Modem
: is busy in kppp
: What can I do to make this modem work
What makes you think it doesn't (hint: I _have_ read your first sentence
and it is so full of unwarranted assumptions as to be alarming!). Read
the Modem and PNP and Serial HOWTOs, and after following them report
back when you've established whether the modem works or not.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Bruce McFarland, Absolute systems)
Subject: Re: Mandrake SCSI Problems, Install
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:45:30 GMT
Hi Sean,
Generally, SCSI has to be terminated on both ends to work correctly.
The controller normally terminates one end automatically, but there
has to be a terminator on the other end (last connector of the cable).
>From your message, it sounds like there may not be an active
terminator at the end of the Ultra cable. Narrow devices (i.e. old
slow SCSI) usually have terminator availablilty on the device, either
with a switch setting or placement/removal of 1 or 3 resistor packs.
These old resistor packs are known as old or dumb termination. I think
you will need to check to make sure that none of your other narrow
devices have termination turned on, except for the last device in the
chain.
Bruce McFarland
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:31:37 -0700, "Sean Kennedy"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having a problem with Mandrake 7.0/Redhat 6.2 installation. I have
>a Symbios UW SCSI card (built into my Intel N440BX motherboard) and get the
>following error on booting from the CD:
>
>Aborting command due to timeout:pid 0, scsi 0,channel 0,id 0, lun 0 0x00 00
>00 00 00 00
>sym53c8xx_Abort:pid 0 serial_number=1 serial_number_at_timeout=1
>
>I have a Fujitsu 9.1GB UW, and a Western Digital 9.1GB UW drive connected to
>the Ultra Wide channel and on the narrow channel I have a 4/8GB Dat tape
>drive, Toshiba 16x CD, Panasonic 8x CDR. All termination is done correctly
>(ultra wide channel is actually internally activly terminated.) I found a
>vague post that suggested I needed to turn of APIC control of the IRQs but I
>got the same error when trying that. Any suggestions would be helpful.
>Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
>--
>Sean Kennedy
>
>
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From: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=F6hme?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Ethernet and sound broken since Athlon upgrade.
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:13:16 +0200
Paul wrote:
> Since I upgraded to an Athlon 750 with Asus K7V motherboard, my Linux
> install won't work with my tulip chipset ethernet card (pci) or my
> Creative Labs PCI128 (es1370) sound card. I use Redhat 6.2. I tried
You tried the es1371 module? afaik the PCI128 has an ensoniq 1371 chip.
Uwe
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 -- good old 'dev or resource busy'...
Date: 8 Jun 2000 21:46:20 GMT
Jared M Minch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've been trying to get my sb16 to work, but every time I try to load the
: sb module, I get 'init_module: device or resource busy.' (Sometimes,
: At first, I figured that it was an IRQ conflict or something, but I've
It is. SB16's work fine. I should know .. I've had one for years.
: Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be going wrong?
Yes ... you're using the wrong sb module params. Tell us what they
are. Run isapnp to set up the sb16 to match them (or do it the other
way round ...).
Peter
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From: "Sean Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake SCSI Problems, Install
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:57:49 -0700
Hi,
Thanks for the reply, sorry I failed to clairify this: I know both channels
are terminated correctly. On the motherboard the SCSI cards are hard
terminated (ie there is no way to remove termination from the cards.) On the
ultra channel I have an internal active terminator ending the chain (24" 3
connector Ultra cable, 1 connector per drive, active terminator at the end)
and on the narrow channel the last device in the chain (CD Rom drive) is
terminated. I run this setup currently 24/7 under Win2k (and NT 4.0 before
that) with heavy disk I/O (SQL Server running) without any incidents. I have
been running SCSI for years but I normally use Adaptec cards, this is my
first attempt at using a non-Adaptec solution. I am open to suggestions
though!
-Sean
> Generally, SCSI has to be terminated on both ends to work correctly.
> The controller normally terminates one end automatically, but there
> has to be a terminator on the other end (last connector of the cable).
> From your message, it sounds like there may not be an active
> terminator at the end of the Ultra cable. Narrow devices (i.e. old
> slow SCSI) usually have terminator availablilty on the device, either
> with a switch setting or placement/removal of 1 or 3 resistor packs.
> These old resistor packs are known as old or dumb termination. I think
> you will need to check to make sure that none of your other narrow
> devices have termination turned on, except for the last device in the
> chain.
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Strange IDE Results
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:21:15 GMT
> When I run a sequential read test ( open /dev/hde & 8K blocks 0-10,000 )
on
> the first (4) devices ( the other 4 still have incorrect geometries, which
> if anyone can tell me how to fix would be great ) I get the following
> results :
I answered my own question concering the drive geometry setup.
LILO appears to be limited to setting only (2) drive geometries useing an
append="hde=Cyl,Head,Sect hdf=Cyl,Head,Sect" statement. If you attempt to
add a third, it gets truncated as the append statement seems have a very
limited
length ( something like 46 characters before truncateing ).
I set the geometries as follows:
cd /proc/ide/ide2/hde
echo bios_cyl:7473 bios_head:255 bios_sect:63 > settings
If anyone knows of another way to set drive geometries, please, do tell.
In any case, the same strange master/slave behavior still exists. The slave
drives are
approximately (2) times the speed of the master drives. The behavior, near
as I can tell,
seems to be related to the promise controller cards, in which case, Im going
to continue this
discussion in comp.os.linux.hardware as that seems a more appropriate
location.
l8r~
mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange IDE Results
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:25:01 GMT
Original post to linux.dev.kernel :
I've run into this somewhat puzzleing problem.
I was running disk performance tests on a new server that I purchased. The
server has (10) identical (60) gigabyte maxtor drives, (8) of which are
connected to promise ultra/66 contollers at the moment. Im useing RedHat 6.2
with the kernel upgraded to version 2.3.99-pre9.
When I run a sequential read test ( open /dev/hde & 8K blocks 0-10,000 ) on
the first (4) devices ( the other 4 still have incorrect geometries, which
if anyone can tell me how to fix would be great ) I get the following
results :
/dev/hde - 12.46 megabytes / second ( master - 0 )
/dev/hdf - 20.43 megabytes / second ( slave - 0 )
/dev/hdg - 12.50 megabytes / second ( master - 1 )
/dev/hdh - 20.27 megabytes / second ( slave - 1 )
If I use the bind the devices to /dev/raw devices, to read w/o buffering, I
get these results :
/dev/hde - 13.98 MB/s
/dev/hdf - 26.14 MB/s
/dev/hdg - 13.96 MB/s
/dev/hdh - 26.10 MB/s
These results suggest that the drives configured as slaves are twice as fast
as the drives configured as master. The settings ( /proc/ide/hde/settings,
etc. ) are all the same.
Does anyone have an explanation for this ?
Is this problem limited to the Promise Ultra/66 controller ? ( answer is
YES )
It just doenst make sense to me 8(
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't receive packets
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:41:08 -0700
Hi,
is BIOS option PnP OS off. If not try to switch it off.
Andrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a basic RedHat 6.2 install and have tried two NICs with no
> luck. The cards are a 3c905B (ISA) and a Generic 10/100 (PCI) that
> uses the VIA-RHINE module. Both cards load and acquire resources and
> show up as installed (with ifconfig). The problem is that neither will
> receive packets. Both will send but get no response with ping.
>
> The PCI card uses irq 11 and /proc/interrupts shows that the card is
> generating interrupts.
>
> Both cards do work on win-boxes so the card are functional. I have
> swapped and tested the cable.
>
> Please help...
>
> Jeff
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Turning on joystick port
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:45:04 GMT
I got it working and this is how I did it (thanks to Jeff East). I am
using the es1371 sound driver.
rmmod es1371
insmod es1371 joystick=0x200
insmod joy-sidewinder
then everything seemed to work fine.
thanks for the replys!
bernie
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From: "Xk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Linux now supports ATA/100... and versus Ultra-160 SCSI
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:47:47 +0100
d have to say SCSI, most hard drives barely reach the threshold of ata66 so
ata100 will bring few benefits until hdd's can catch up... however scsi
drives canreach above the limitations of ata66 speeds.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: HELP: SIMPLE IRQ Routine Crashes
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:48:26 -0700
Hi,
are you sure that syntax of line correct
printk(KERN_INFO "Servicing Interrupt %02d.\n", irq);
as I never seen something like that. Normaly in C it looks
printk(KERN_INFO, "Servicing Interrupt %02d.\n", irq);
^^^
or
printk("KERN_INFO Servicing Interrupt %02d.\n", irq);
^^^
Check syntax. I do not have any experience with
developing of drivers but it looks wrong from
point of C syntax which I had to use. It seems to
me that it should be like in case #1.
Andrey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Creative Esonics sound card & RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:53:23 GMT
I have a GW P166 with an intigrated sound chip. It is a Creative Labs
Esonics chip. When I installed RH 6.2 it never asked about my sound
card. How do I get it to work after Linux is installed.
It appears that RH does not prompt you for ISA hardware anymore. I
guess if it does not find a device on the PCI or AGP slot it must not be
important.
Thanks,
Mark Wisner
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From: Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:00:05 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I got Linux Mandrake 7.0 running on the ASUS K7V for the past couple of
months. I had some problems, but then I disabled the MERGE BYTE option
in the BIOS and my SCSI (both adaptec 2940 and 29160) worked with no
problems. I followed some of the recommendations on http://www.k7v.com
(its good) and disabled some other settings also.
I have tried installing Linux Mandrake 7.0, Linux RedHat 6.0 on both
SCSI and also one on IDE.
System info:
ASUS K7V, BIOS ver.1005
Athlon 700 MHz
256 MB RAM PC133
Adaptec 29160N SCSI cont.
Quantum SCSI HD * 2
Plextor CD SCSI
Plextor Burner SCSI
Matrox G400
Hope the K7V site can help.
Regards
Tellplace
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey! I got the same crap over here. My k7v just came in yerterday. Set
> it all up. Took my old Linux drive off my old machine and installed it
> in the k7v. Booted off the CD (RedHat 6.2) because it wont boot of it.
> Installation starts, and as soon it hits hda for checking... (BOOOOOM!)
> I/O errors galore and resets all over the place. Installation fails.
> What's up with that????
>
> System:
> ASUS K7V
> 128mb Corsair PC133
> AMD Athlon 800mhz
> Matrox G400 32MB Dual Head
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ryan Sackenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just recently bought an ASUS K7V motherboard, and I've had problems
> with
> > hard drive accessing in Linux. First of all I moved my hard drive over
>
> > from my old system, and had some major filesystem errors, in which I
> ended
> > up having to completely wipe the drive clean. And I have not yet been
> able
> > to get any Linux OS installed on the machine. I have tried both
> Mandrake
> > 7.0 and Red hat 6.2, and they both either lockup or reset after
> attempting
> > to format or install.
> >
> > The strange thing is that it appears to work for a period of time,
> but
> > then drops out with a kernel panic. I have attempted to change some of
> the
> > settings in the BIOS to disable the Ultra/66 mode for the hard drive,
> and I
> > even moved it to the slower controller, but I still keep having the
> same
> > errors. I don't think it is a hard drive problem, because the hard
> drive
> > is about 6 months old, and was previously working just fine. Also I
> was
> > able to install Win98 without any problems, so I don't believe it is a
> > hardware problem. I was able to use a floppy distribution (Tomsrtbt),
> and
> > mount the drives without any problem, as well as copying files. But
> like I
> > said, the problem appears to happen at random (except during
> installation).
> >
> > Has anyone had similar experiences using ASUS's K7V board? I can't
> seem
> > to find much about it's compatibility with Linux. Is there a way to
> get
> > Linux to work with this board? Here's some general info about my
> system.
> >
> > ASUS K7V KX133 Athlon motherboard
> > AMD Athlon 650
> > 128MB 133x RAM
> > 13GB IBM HDD
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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> >
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> Before you buy.
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From: "sft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linksys 10/100 56k pcmcia card probs
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:03:57 GMT
I just installed a linksys 10/100 56k ethernet/modem card on my laptop, the
modem is very slooowwww, and the ethernet slows down on occasion. When I do
a ifconfig, and a setserial it shows that the card uses the same IRQ (3)
for both the ethernet and the modem - is this the problem? In win95 the card
shares IRQ (11), but the ethernet and modem both work fine. Can someone
point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
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